Product Manager
Location: US, NY, New York City
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Industry: Professional Training & Coaching
Function: Product Management

Company profile:
Levo League is a thriving community of young professionals, role models, and innovative companies taking Gen Y by storm. Levo League's mission is to help professional women elevate their career by providing the best job opportunities, skill building tools and networking connections to accelerate their success.We've just raised $8MM to build the first-ever career recommendation engine. Our investors are all private high-profile angel investors (e.g., Sheryl Sandberg) and LPs in funds we like (e.g., Social + Capital Partnership).Sometimes we feed you vegetables:And fruit:Our NYC office has a boss chair, imagine yourself in it:Or imagine yourself as the Shibu that runs the place:

Job description:
Do you want to change how the next generation of women (and men) navigate the work world? Levo League provides its growing and fanatically loyal user base with a platform that helps them elevate their careers and connects them with the jobs, content, with each other and mentors like Warren Buffett and Sheryl Sandberg. Are you a hard working superstar with analytical chops, a deep empathetic understanding of user experience, and the ability to learn new skills and practices on the fly? Good at design, writing, comfortable with basic HTML/CSS, SQL, and fantastic at quickly mastering new technologies?  Levo is looking for a a Product Manager to own and create the digital products that our users interact with to find jobs, events, each other, mentors, and the guides and assessment tests to improve their career.  You’ll work on web pages, mobile first, and installed mobile apps.  Because Levo has a huge live component, you’ll have the ability to test your prototypes with actual users, and see the impact your work has already made on their careers.What you’ll do:Analyze user data, business requirements from multiple and sometimes conflicting stakeholders and transform them into usable and elegant product specificationsCollaborate with UI/UX designers, coders, and business leads on product flows and designsBuild, test, and prototype with real, live users in our monthly prototyping sessionsResearch at scale with digital UX testing and optimization solutionsWrite detailed user stories, identify edge cases, and work with the development team to roll out features in an agile, continuous deployment environmentLaunch products that delight our demanding user baseAnalyze the success of your product, iterate, improve, analyze, iterate

Requirements:
Comfortable as a business analyst - you’ve gathered requirements and turned them into detailed and articulate functional use cases and specifications that can be easily understood by designers and developersProficiency in creating wireframes and designs and interactive prototypes using tools such as Axure, AI, POP, etc.  You don't have to be a designer, but you have to be able to build a simple prototype.Demonstrated ability to work as part of a highly collaborative team.Demonstrated ability to lead laterally and manage upwards.  You can own projects and products that have multiple stakeholders.  It’s a plus if you have an aesthetic sensibility that blends beautiful and useful. You won't be a designer, but it's important to understand design schemes and existing styles.Copywriting and marketing skills are also a plus, as is experience working with editorial teams.Levo has a no jerks policy. Your teammates will be smart people that work hard and think it’s important to be nice to one another.

Benefits:
Compensation for this position includes a competitive salary/benefits/equity, meaningful work, and smart, hard working, nice colleagues. Work hard and be nice to people; we say it and we live it.  Flexible telecommute option  Sweet, dog friendly office overlooking Union Square.  Perks include team lunches, office yoga, and occasional  from our partner friends like SoulCycle.